Last month I mentioned that one of my students, Kathryn Theiss, had been awarded a fellowship from the Switzer Foundation. (That's Kathryn next to one of her orchids in Madagascar there at the left.) Today I discovered that the University has released yet another story about her. It appears in UConn Today, the online version of our campus news.
Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article:
Here are a couple of paragraphs from the article:
The Switzer award, a prestigious national fellowship, will enable her to return to Madagascar and continue her field studies.
The awards are given to young environmental leaders at universities in New England or California. They include a $15,000 award, which Theiss will use to continue her research on native orchids in Madagascar.
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